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12-05-2012 01:21 AM

m00se

LOL yea, that's why they give you 50 in the bag!! And then they STILL don't fit! ARRRGG!!!

12-05-2012 01:19 AM

PlantedRich

Changed out any faucet washers lately? That will grind you down! There seems to be some kind of code in plumbing that there shall be nothing made that will fit any other brand!

12-04-2012 05:06 PM

m00se

OMG so true! This drives me (a true diy'er) NUTS! No standard for nipple sizes and wall thicknesses. I keep thinking that someone could make a killing in this hobby if they just made useful sized quick connects for hoses. Fluval has their Laguna line but it's all huge.... Makes me crazy and want to chew bad things.

12-04-2012 04:00 PM

PlantedRich

Knowing the size is not where I start when I'm modding stuff like this. What really matters is what will fit so I cut a bit of tubing and take it along to eyeball whether it fits. There is often no reasonable way to say what will fit together due to the various wall thickness.

12-04-2012 01:53 PM

Darkblade48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dayumdanny

Does anyone know what the size of the ehiems stock inlet and the siZe of the tubing?

Google works wonders.

The diameter of the pipe is 13 mm. The tubing that it uses is 12/16 mm.

12-04-2012 12:29 PM

Dayumdanny

Does anyone know what the size of the ehiems stock inlet and the siZe of the tubing?

12-04-2012 07:10 AM

OVT

Quote:

Originally Posted by In.a.Box

keep in mind, 2 inlet mean more water will flow into the canister. The pump must pump up fast enough to keep up with the water flowing down.

That's why I asked for a clarification.

All canister filters that I have seen to date are mag drive: there is no motor, no pump to 'work harder'. The only moving part is an impeller in a Fe jacket that is spun around by a magnetic field. You can plug the outlet completely and the impeller will just move the water within the canister.

12-04-2012 06:08 AM

Darkblade48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dayumdanny

Yeah all I'm really trying to do is get water movement in my tank. I posted my tank in tank journals incase anyone wanted to see. I came across another problem. I have my tank on a counter top and it's a really shallow tank so the stock inlet pipes won't be able to hang on the back. Is ehiems inlet pipe plastic? If not can anyone link me to a plastic inlet where I can chop it and make it fit to my tank?

The Eheim inlet pipe is plastic and the length easily shortened with a hacksaw.

12-04-2012 04:48 AM

Dayumdanny

Yeah all I'm really trying to do is get water movement in my tank. I posted my tank in tank journals incase anyone wanted to see. I came across another problem. I have my tank on a counter top and it's a really shallow tank so the stock inlet pipes won't be able to hang on the back. Is ehiems inlet pipe plastic? If not can anyone link me to a plastic inlet where I can chop it and make it fit to my tank?

12-04-2012 12:47 AM

Option

Quote:

Originally Posted by In.a.Box

keep in mind, 2 inlet mean more water will flow into the canister. The pump must pump up fast enough to keep up with the water flowing down.

This is definitely not the case. If you go from 1 inlet to 2 inlets, all this means in that the pressure into each inlet is lessened (in theory by half) so that the sum of the two is still equal to the pressure of just one inlet. So nothing should change in terms of how much water (per unit time) enters the canister.

T or Y it doesnt matter to me, as long as i can get the tubes to go from two intake tubes back into 1. So PVC T or Y connectors will work fine? What would I have to use to seal the connector to the eheim tube?

12-03-2012 06:47 PM

PlantedRich

In fittings of most common types, "Y" is less common than "tee". There may be Some but I don't see them as often. When I do tank plumbing, I want it to run around the tank top out of sight more often. This doesn't work as well with a y so I've never spent much time looking for y"s .

12-03-2012 04:18 PM

Dayumdanny

So there's no actual Y connector for the tubing? I'm going to have to use PVC/CPVC Y connector and attatch my tubes as well as sealing it?

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